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You are proposing an excellent business machine, but probably a bit
too powerful for billing software... I think Celeron 300 or 333 will
do just as well for less... of course you should go with Slot1, because
it allows you to take a clear upgrade... up to P3 if you need.
64 Mb is the min for running win98 - I have 32 now and you don't want
to experience what I do... every day. Anyway. The video probably is
overkill too. You also can salvage the floppy from the P100 and save $.
All of this applies if your concern no.1 is saving money... If you're not
tight-budgeted, the sort of PC you describe is good enough.
<> Max Timchenko [MaxVT]
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On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, John Sproule wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am helping a friend do some shopping for a new computer for her office
> that would primarily have the duty of running some billing software. This
> would be a stand alone computer for a small office. The old pentium 100 did
> fine with the DOS version of the software, but it chokes on the windows
> version (only 8mb of ram). The goal is to find as inexpensive a machine as
> possible, but I would like to recommend something solidly reliable and with
> some possibilities for upgrading later. She recently upgraded the old
> machine with a new CD ROM and US Robotics internal modem (not the winmodem),
> so the idea would be to transfer over those components and the original
> colorado tape drive to the new computer.
>
> My inclination would be to go for a custom Celoron based system (400mhz)
> using either a BX based socket 370 mb, such as the ABIT BM6 or a regular
> slot one BX motherboard and the adaptor for socket 370 celerons (someone
> suggested a gigabyte mb to use in this manner). 64mb of PC100 SDRAM. 8.4mb
> ultra DMA HDD. 1.44mb floppy drive. And a Millenium G200 8mb AGP card.
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